@scottalanmiller said in Best SIP VoIP Softphone for macOS:
Got a couple of users on macOS that would like to set up a softphone on their desktops. In theory Linphone, Zoiper, X-Lite make macOS versions. Anyone have a reason to pick one or the other or have another option on macOS?
I use Telephone on my laptop and like it. Its pretty sparse, but it works well and is efficient.

It is likely obvious, but as I know that some people are searching for this information, creating administrative users in this way can be done very easily from remote command lines such as ScreenConnect, ConnectWise, MeshCentral, and so forth.

Worth noting that using rsync worked very well, but there were issues with the Outlook profile on the existing user workstation and the end result.
Not a huge issue for us as everything is stored in O365, but worth being mindful of if your email was hosted locally.
Also because of username convention changes, I had to set the ownership of the user profile to match the new shortened name.

@LilAng said in Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table:
In Excel, use File > Save as web page, then attach the web page to your email message?
Yeah, we found that process. That's a pretty huge "fail" process.

@DustinB3403 said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs:
@dafyre said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs:
@Dashrender said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs:
@DustinB3403 said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs:
Yeah I kind of have an issue with this. . .
It's my device, if I want Joe from the mall kiosk to replace whatever in my device, that is my right to do, and I'd be the responsible person who risk the device being broken further or compromised with non-oem parts.
On the other side of the conversation I understand Apple's reasoning for this and it's sounds like they simply want users to use OEM only parts, but they use this guise of "for security".
Which also kind of irks me. . .
Why do you call it a guise? If Apple doesn't make the interconnect APIs available, who knows what those knockoff people are making.
I'm back to the point where the device should likely just hit you with a warning every 24 hours that you might have compromised shit installed - but I'm guessing that Scott and others will be against that level of frequency.
I'm against a one time notice of there being a perceived security issue in the device.
I'm not against a notification -- but every 24 hours seems excessive. Maybe a 30 second notification every reboot -- something that doesn't require any action other than waiting the 30 seconds.
But this is just an "you may have been" there is no proof that something has been compromised. Just the possibility because a non approved person or company has worked on property you own.
I think any notification that would force you to wait, period would be overly intrusive.
Right, you MAY have been compromised with Apple's own stuff, too. But they would "conveniently" not show a warning. Therefore the warning would have nothing to do with risk, and everything to do with FUD.

Here is the current Mac Pro, the top of the line system: https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/
Honestly, it's not impressive. This is not "power" hardware by any stretch. The price is high, but the gear in it is lackluster. They've not released a "power" product since 2013, what they released then was this which is pretty hampered, and they don't plan to update it until 2019 at the earliest.
It's not hard at all to see how an ARM-based system might compete really, really well here. Apple's "power user" hardware isn't on par with power users from the rest of the industry as it stands today and their refresh cycles are absurd so that anyone in their "power users club" has to already feel totally abandoned under the current model of things.

@wls-itguy said in MAC HD monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in MAC HD monitoring:
@dustinb3403 said in MAC HD monitoring:
SodiumSuite would likely be a great candidate here.
It's silent (besides your installation) and it's free.
Other option could be Nagios or Zabbix
SS doesn't do email alerts (yet)
If I wasn't aware of the trouble that Macs are giving you I'd downvote this response
Ha, it's funny because it's true.

What you may need to do is log in to the Calendar's web interface on Google... then go to Settings.
Then click on the Calendar you need to sync... and then scroll to the bottom and get the "Secret Adddress in iCal format"
Then Link that one in iCal on the Mac... I think you add it by URL... But that should give you 2 way Syncing, not a one time import.

Even though I know that it is there, I get this...
salt 'minion' ps.cpu_times
minion:
'ps' __virtual__ returned False: The ps module cannot be loaded: python module psutil not installed.
ERROR: Minions returned with non-zero exit code

We use a mac mini server for streaming locally generated TV content (I work for telecom, working with IPTV) So it's primarily multicast traffic.
We do have a mac mini server for corporate as well. That handles the group policies and such for our mac computers. Works nice. Not sure what OS version it is on.

@JaredBusch Mac and its features do have a consumer bent. Gotta consider I.T. pros being responsible for themselves and their own processes.
Actually, surprised you did not mention doing the backups via cron/systemd/etc.
Am a bit curious on the current performance comparison between Parallels v9 and VMware Fusion v6—
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-latest-virtualization-showdown-parallels-desktop-9-vs-vmware-fusion-6/
'Tis one source, still want more being an I.T. skeptic & all that